10 Then Yeshua called out to the crowd, “Listen carefully so you can understand this: 11 It’s not what goes into your mouth that defiles you, but rather, it’s what comes out of your mouth.”

12 His followers then came up to him and told him, “You know that the Pharisees were offended by what you just said?”

13 “Every plant,” Yeshua answered, “that wasn’t planted by my heavenly father will get pulled out. 14 [ref]Just ignore them. They are blind guides, and if blind people are leading the blind, both of them will stumble into a pit.”

15 But Peter asked him, “So interpret the parable for us.”

16 “Can’t you all figure it out yet?” Yeshua replied. 17 Can’t you all see that everything that goes into your mouth, goes down into your stomach and then eventually ends up in the toilet? 18 [ref]But the things that come out of your mouth are coming from your mind and that’s what defiles a person. 19 Because lust, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, stealing, falsely accusing and slander, these all come of the mind. 20 It’s those things that defile a person, not eating without ceremonially washing your hands.”